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Not Just A Punching Bag - How to feed during training
by Jasan Fujii

Your feeds should resemble more of what you and your classmates would encounter on the street. Why? Because when those punches do come on the street, you are less likely to freeze because the punch is familiar to you vs. freezing because you are so use to seeing a wing chun punch delivered to you over and over again in class.

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What's Your Pedigree? - The Importance and Shortfalls of Lineage
by John Kang

Just as owners of purebred dogs concern themselves with the purity of their pets' pedigree, the martial art student should seriously consider the authenticity of their lineage. This means understanding whom your teacher learned from, whom this Grand-teacher learned from, and so on-- all the way back to the legendary or actual origin of the style. The importance of the birth of the style, and your relationship to that origin, lies within the way that martial systems are learned.

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Contact Reflexes Make Wing Chun a Live Martial Art
by Sifu Lo Man Kam

When talking about kung-fu, many people limit discussion to the performance of remarkable, but not necessarily combat-applicable fighting sets. Perhaps they have been misled by the "Martial Arts Novels" popular in Asia; or lured astray by a trickster claiming to know supernatural skills; or maybe their preconceptions are influenced by foreign fighting systems. Regardless of the source of their limited conceptions, they now believe they must practice these flashy sets in order to fully master martial arts.
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Finding the Centerline with Hands Crossed
by John Kang

As a concept-driven style, Wing Chun Kung Fu can be articulated through virtually infinite combinations of movements and techniques. In order to help a student understand these underlying ideas, and express them according to their own body type and mental set, many teachers adopt varying sensitivity, precision, and fighting drills.
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